NEW SHAKESPEARE

More on our relationship with the digital world.

There go
those computers
and that internet
again.

Like Shakespeare
shaping the King’s English:
     --band-width
     --brain dump
     --Google it
     --networking while multi-tasking.

Oh yes,
resist
but how can you
control language
when you can see
futility of French language police

We could
take it off line
unplug
off the grid.

But even then
digital bard
is programing
our tongue. 

Reviews

[Rita L. Sev]

My brother and I have an ongoing conversation about how language is a living, growing and ever-changing entity. We share archaic words and new dictionary entries alike, and discuss why and where and when words have come in or gone out... This poem says it so well - I may just have to share this with him!

[rutherford]

Thanks for reading it. Hope it contributes to your conversation with your brother.

[OTownPete]

There is so much truth to your "hashtag" words my literate friend. I took a huge gigabite out of this one. Your friend in words, Pete

[Aethereal]

Just how would a Shakespearian play sound if it was filled with Google Jive? I wonder how Shakespeare would react to our Internet if he returned from his Nether World. Language is a growing evolving entity who may or may not morph into a goggle-eyed monster as time goes by.

[rutherford]

I wonder too. Your comment got me thinking what might happen to the machines we program -- might they program our language one day?

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Again...like the others of your work...this just adds to the understanding...thanks for the invite...good to read this one...

[rutherford]

Thanks Glen. I think I have a few more on this theme to get out of my system.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

You're welcome... have at them...then...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

very clever, and fun for an English teacher to read...technology is chopping up the King's English.

jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

very clever, and fun for an English teacher to read...technology is chopping up the King's English.

jacob

[Michael G. Smith]

Words fascinate me. I'm always reading the dictionary. Remember when typo and snafu were new words back in the seventies.